What We Offer
Our Flagship Programmes
From six-month bootcamps to a 2,000-delegate continental congress, Accelerate Africa’s flagship programmes equip founders, SMEs, and innovators with the funding, networks, and market access to scale across Africa.
Accelerate Africa Startup Acceleration Programme (AASAP)
Annual Hybrid Bootcamp, Pitch and Demo Day
AASAP is a cohort-based programme designed to rapidly support early-stage, growth-driven companies. It offers a blend of mentorship, access to finance and investment — connecting founders to investors — and access to markets and networking opportunities, aiming to compress years of learning and development into a few months.
AASAP runs as a unique six-month bootcamp, culminating in a Pitch and Demo Day.
Accelerate Africa Bootcamp (AAB)
AAB is a continental training programme bringing together some 100 participants from across Africa. Conceived for startup founders, early-stage ventures, and emerging SMEs, the bootcamp helps participants package, brand, and unleash their potential toward industrialization and job creation — solving real business challenges with pre-built solutions that deliver clear visibility and instant value for SMEs.
Accelerate Africa Summit (AAS)
AAS brings together some 300 participants and delegates — entrepreneurs, startup founders, SMEs, captains of industry, government and policy makers, investors, and key development actors from across Africa and beyond — for a unique business and investment opportunity.
The Summit introduces new paradigms on finance, investment, and industrialization toward the African Continental Free Trade Area, with a focus on economic diversification and digital transformation across Africa.
Africa Startup Congress (ASC)
ASC is Africa’s premier startup gathering, hosting some 2,000 delegates from across Africa and beyond. It serves as a marketplace for government, development stakeholders, banks and financial institutions, investors, captains of industry, and entrepreneurs — with a key focus on empowering innovators and accelerating job creation across Africa.
The Congress is conceived as a continental convening platform that fosters collaboration, shares knowledge, mobilizes investment, and shapes enabling policies — bridging startups, investors, governments, corporates, development partners, academia, and innovation hubs to accelerate Africa’s transition to a resilient, competitive, and sustainable entrepreneurial economy.
Centred on: the Africa Startup Act (ASA) and the Africa Startup Innovation Fund (ASIF)
The Accelerate Africa Pitch Competition
Investing in startups and early-stage SMEs is one of our key priorities. We organize pitch competitions across the continent in key sectors to boost Africa’s economic growth — identifying high-potential startups and accelerating their growth across the ecosystem.
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